tiredofsametab

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[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've used firefox on android for years now. The only time I do anything in Chrome is when I need to translate pages easily (Japanese translation only recently hit desktop version and it's very poor quality and google lens is inconvenient).

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago

Chat just became synonymous with readers/listeners in modern slang. I also went through my "old man yells at cloud" phase about it, but it's fine, I guess. I still get annoyed when people say the name of twitch emotes, though.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're ChatGPT! I knew it!

/ Cat, I farted

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A very TL;DR version of some question:

Do any of the 3 have any other relatives (some conjecture that Japanese and Korean are related, Ainu may have had other relatives maybe something before Nikvh, and we have no idea what the original settlers to Japan (some of whom likely came from Taiwan but others from other places) spoke).

Was Peninsular Japanese a thing (we only think it exists because of some placenames in old Korean and/or Chinese documents). If so, was Japaonic pushed off the peninsula or was it brought to the peninsula?

What was pronunciation like of any of these languages in antiquity? We have some ideas, but it's not as clear-cut as, say, Chinese which can be studied by things like rhyme dictionaries.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 66 points 1 week ago (9 children)

And, for the most part, humans' lungs don't have bees!

I somehow forgot about bees not having lungs. I knew some other small things didn't.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I would try to coordinate with linguists and scholars to find out more about language isolates. If everyone can do it, we could train everyone and go at 20-to-50-year intervals and solve some linguistic mysteries (specifically Japanese (current and peninsular) and Korean; Ainu origins; yayoi origins; jomon origins; etc.)

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

What grandchildren? I guess it's not impossible I'd have to remarry in my 50s or older to someone with kids, but I sure hope I don't have to.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

Mid-40s and wrote several. Many places I lived only accepted rent by check or money order.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 33 points 1 week ago

Dictators are known for keeping potential threats to their power around after they've outlived their usefulness so surely things will be fine, right?

// might keep 1 or 2 around in custody to attempt to prop up legitimacy later if needed.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago

Yes, many other countries do. Yes, going to those countries right now is better. To say that the US has none of those is still incorrect.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Literally nothing to do or see here anyway.

This is 100% not true; there are amazing museums and national parks and a host of other things. Don't go there now, but your statement is patently false.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 8 points 1 week ago

I'm a US citizen living abroad and, unless someone's dying, I'm not going near the place. Also trying to avoid giving US companies money wherever possible (though sorta unavoidable for things like my US bank which I need for US stuff).

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